Once configured the way I like it, it has been a very good performer with privacy by default in mind. But if FF folds it will take LibreWolf with it.

The problem with opinion pieces like this, there is no offer of a better solution. Chrome? No thank you. Addon capabilities were hobbled on that platform because Google was losing access to your data. This applies to all the chromium derivatives as well like Edge.

I had used Brave for some time as the "lesser of chrome evils" but at least for me it has become unstable and bloated in recent months - hence the move to LibreWolf.

LibreWolf however is not without it's shortfalls - while it maintains parity with the FF releases, the maintainer has their own ideas about how your browser should behave and it requires some technical knowledge to override their decisions. For example - you cannot enable dark mode, a very common configuration choice, by default. You have to edit the config to override the restriction. And trying to set LibreWolf as the default browser requires jumping through unnecessary hoops.

Currently I'm waiting patiently for LadyBird to mature. There's potential there.

This is the WaPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

OP used an MSN link which ironically is another way big tech has been siphoning off your data. Google loves to return an entire page full of MSN links because Microsoft has been aggregating and news links for fun an profit using Edge as a default browser. The story should have included eschewing the use of Edge along with Chrome.

Not replaced... slowly made extinct because there is no longer an incentive to get a deep understanding of the underlying code. People entering the field will, by and large, not invest themselves any further than necessary, relying on the tools to do the work for them.

Whats on the horizon are only "highly skilled prompt writers"

The other way to interpret that data is to acknowledge that highly skilled tech workers are a shrinking population being replaced by AI agents and "Vibe" coding.

"Tech Savvy" people represent a much smaller group than you think. And many of them, including myself, moved to an alternative OS when Win11 was announced and have been getting along just fine. The vast majority of my team moved off windows years ago, so it's incorrect to say they stick with windows. What's correct is they represent a tiny fraction of the market base.

The year of the Linux Desktop has been here for some time, and the increasing compatibility with the SteamOS portfolio of games will see more and more of the younger generation adopt it as well.

The primary driver of Windows market share however is on the enterprise side, and legacy consumers. Media professionals long ago moved to MacOS and coders, especially with AI agents beginning to mature, no longer need Windows for SoftDev.

I honestly believe the idea that "AI's aren't GAI because they aren't big enough yet" is fatally flawed. AI's are glorified search engines - they don't reason, they summarize, they generalize. The bigger they get the more examples of what you're looking for can be returned, but they don't CREATE anything. They are trained on what we created and therefor we see human traits in the returned content, but the AI didn't make that content, we did. We're just seeing ourselves reflected back.

I don't believe for a second that the only thing stopping AI's becoming reasoning entities is the size of their dataset. The human mind is vastly more complex than that, it cannot be so easily reduced to a single mechanism.

Gas and Diesel isn't going anywhere - it's still the cheapest, highest energy density source of power for a vehicle and has enormous infrastructure in place to support it.

Hybrids take advantage of this infrastructure by capturing otherwise wasted energy, like braking, traveling downhill, or idling in traffic to expand the efficiency of ICE engines while asking for zero behavioral changes from the consumer.

Live in an apt or don't have easy access to charging stations? Local infrastructure can't handle the load of a swarm of people charging their cars in their garages? Doesn't matter, you're still just putting gas in the tank, only now you're using less gas and benefiting from the latest electric motor and battery tech - increased fuel efficiency, faster acceleration and all without the range anxiety that comes from fully electric.

It's important to ignore the sensationalized articles that talk about an AI "resisting" shutdown. There is no mind behind this - it's expected behavior from the way the systems are trained. AI systems are basically pachinko games where the player is trying to get the ball to land in the "winning" slot, but we don't credit the machines with calculating the physics behind the drop.

"Journalists" need to stop anthropomorphizing these systems. This is literally the age old "garbage in garbage out" scenario for any software.

Good engineers need not fear anything, they will only see an increase in productivity by using AI for mundane coding tasks. Poor performing engineers, and MS only dumped 12 of 400, can expect to be replaced by a very small shell script.

This is the way it's supposed to work. Anything that helps a company drop dead weight is good for the bottom line.

This is a pipe dream - at best it would take 10 years to bring new plants online. The state of AI will be very different by then.

Not that I'm against a push for nuclear, I'm very in favor of that for a variety of reasons, but feeding the AI behemoth isn't one of the use cases.

It's almost never a good idea to leave this value at it's default. For example - the "tuned" profile "throughput-performance" will set this down to 5.

This was going to be my response as well. I can't remember the last time I ran a linux instance with insufficient memory. But I can see use cases on SOC or IoT devices.

It was the first one they built, and that takes time. The additional reactors seem to be coming online within 3-4 years which is pretty fast. I have to believe (or maybe I just want to believe) that shortening the build time that much would make this type of reactor more commercially competitive.

And it appears there will indeed be a push here in the US, at least for SMR's:

https://www.washingtontimes.co...

Meanwhile in China, they brought their first Westinghouse AP1000 online in 2019 after 9 years of construction. They have since brought 3 more online as of 2022 and have four more approved and under construction.

That's what construction times look like with a standardized reactor design and the backing of the government.

We could do that here, we just need a willing administration

The problem has been that each new plant seems to be getting redesigned which in turn requires evaluation and approval and also that portions are untested.

But we have have well established and tested gen III designs that can be replicated which seriously reduces the approval process and builders have a far better grasp of the project costs which allows them to properly bid and execute their work.

Really, only the will to move forward remains.